...arguments for a strong central government and chose instead a "firm league of friendship," united primarily "for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare...." 43 When the Constitutional Convention assembled in l787, the need for a strong...

...confederation expressly delegated to the Uinted States in Congress assembled. AHT. III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. ART. IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different...

...confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. ART. in. The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever. the free inhabitants of each of these states, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,...

...hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual...account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever. Article IV. The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse...

...assembled. Article III bound the states to defend each other under under certain circumstances including "attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account...sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever." Ninety years later the descendants of those same Northern politicians would declare that state sovereignty,...

...expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III: The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves...

...expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Article III. The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves...

...Confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. Ill The said States hereby Or when he brought them home? Or when he picked them up? And it is plain, defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves...

...Articles set forth their association as the affective give-and-take of friendship: "The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare" (86). Figuring the...